In the year King Uzziyyahu died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, with his train filling the palace. Seraphs were standing above him; each had six wings. With two it would cover its face, with two it would cover its feet, with two it would fly. One would call to another, ‘Sacred, sacred, sacred, Yahweh of Armies, his splendour is the filling of the entire earth.’ The doorposts on the sills shook at the sound of the one who called, while the house was filling with smoke.
I said, ‘Aagh me, because I’m ruined, because I’m a man polluted of lips, and I live among a people polluted of lips, because my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies.’ But one of the seraphs flew to me, in his hand a coal that he had taken with tongs from on the altar. He made it touch my mouth, and he said, ‘There, this has touched your lips, and you waywardness will depart, your wrongdoing will be expiated.’ I heard the Lord’s voice saying, ‘Whom shall I send, who will go for us?’ I said, ‘Here I am, send me.’
Goldingay, John The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.